Finance Assistant

About Us: 

Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future. 

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

The Role:  

This exciting opportunity involves managing key financial processes, including revenue apportionment, invoicing, and comprehensive financial reporting. You'll support carbon emissions calculations, administer company health insurance, and respond to employee queries regarding pensions and pay. The role also involves enhancing internal systems, collaborating with the Operations team on supplier contracts, and providing crucial support to the Finance Manager and team. This position offers significant growth potential within a growing and innovative organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apportioning revenue for year end accounts
• Raising invoices, credit notes, expenses and bills in accounting system as required
• Provide expenses reporting to support carbon emissions calculations
• Producing weekly invoice status reports covering overdue invoices and un-invoiced work
• Producing monthly employee utilisation reports for account managers
• Producing to monthly revenue performance reports against revenue targets
• Producing quarterly invoice reports for quarterly accounts
• Producing quarterly VAT report
• Work with Operations team to check and sign supplier contracts
• Administer company health insurance policy
• Respond to employee pension and pay queries
• Contribute to internal systems and processes improvement project
• Support Finance Manager and team members with ad-hoc queries as required
• Monthly excel data reporting

Key Skills/Experience:

Candidates should have a strong academic background and be able to demonstrate that they have the following personal skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Motivated, enthusiastic and committed
• Excellent communicators, both written and verbal, with an ability to successfully engage with team members, clients and stakeholders
• Strong numeracy skills
• Attention to detail
• Self starter

Specialist skills/Qualifications required:

• A background in financial processes and / or financial administration is essential.
• A good understanding of Microsoft Excel / Google Spreadsheets
• Qualification in Accounting or working towards being fully qualified, such as ACCA

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
• Flexibility to work from home (1-2 days a week in the office)
• Up to 5 days training a year
• Generous discretionary bonus
• Statutory & Contributory pension
• Free gym membership
• Annual Away days
• Monthly company socials
• Ongoing training 

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.